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Trading Connections of the Eastern Adriatic and Black Sea Ports in the Second Half of the 19th Century

In this paper I would present trading connections between the eastern Adriatic ports that were a part of Habsburg Empire and different ports on the Black Sea. My basic argument is that the trade connections intensified in this period, due to the newly established sailing routes of the Adriatic and Black Seas that enabled entrepreneurial trading connections on both sides. The Adriatic and the Black Sea, both connected with the Mediterranean basin were relatively unconnected as mutual trade destinations until the second half of the 19 century. However, after the end of Crimean War the Black Sea gained favourable attention within the maritime merchants of the eastern Adriatic who started sailing to the Black Sea ports transporting and trading in versatile goods. Namely, from Adriatic they exported salt fish and wine to the Black Sea ports, and on their way back the transported different kinds of corn. Vice versa, the merchants from the Black Sea sailed in Adriatic mostly exporting corn and taking back to their homeports olive oil and salted fish from Adriatic. On the Black Sea, Adriatic merchants mostly traded with Russia, Wallachia and Moldova and to a lesser extent with Ottoman Empire. The sources show that merchants from the Adriatic island of Hvar sold salted fish in the Danube ports of Brăila and Galați. With bilateral openings of consulates in both Seas' ports, the trading gained state sponsorship.

maritime trade, Dalmatia, Black Sea ports, Austrian Empire

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